Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Online Hoaxes

Not just for April Fools Day either.

I think there are a few online hoaxes going around once again. We know the Fatimist hoax, the Sr. Lucia double, the incomplete secret, and now more absurdly, the newly found addition to the secret stating Church authority will be transferred to Fatima. (Here) Then there are all the Masonic conspiracy theories which tend to indict the Popes and Vatican II and the Novus Ordo. Many Catholics are deceived.

It reminds me of the Leo Taxil hoax, his fake conversion, as well as the Diana Vaughan hoax. I've written about it before. April Fools posts were unusual enough this year to suggest that some of the most faithful people online could maybe not be as faithful as we think. Pope Francis talks a lot about corruption and corrupt people. Leo Taxil was corrupt. He even deceived Leo XXIII, and of course, the Carmelites of Lisieux.

"About 1894 there appeared in France a series of self-styled revelations of the secrets of Freemasonry, published by a certain Dr. Bataille (Leon Taxil) and a woman called Diana Vaughan. These accounts gripped the imagination of the French public for a while. Later they were found to be false. The Servant of God took a certain interest in them at first, but long before there was any official denial of them she told us that they were not to be believed. Her only reason for rejecting them was the fact that Diana Vaughan once spoke against episcopal authority. 'That kind of thing cannot come from God, ' she said." - St. Therese By Those Who Knew Her

Keep that in mind when vetting the more preposterous things you read online. When Catholics speak against episcopal authority - especially and including the Pope - remember what St. Therese said about the Taxil hoax: 'That kind of thing cannot come from God.'

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Discernment is good, but we also have to remember a few things. Bishops, and even Popes can be bad people and discern incorrectly. They too can, and do lie. We ought not blindly believe everything they say. We should also remember that there is a factual basis to the claim that there was a masonic influence, and evil intent behind the creation of the Novus Ordo. Those things have been proven by facts and the writings of the very people who created the Novus Ordo. So, when it comes to that, its not just conspiracy theories. There is also ample evidence - again, facts - that support that there is more to the third secret of Fatima than has been revealed. I used to hold that this is not the case, then I researched it myself, and talked to various experts (not conspiracy theorists, but balanced and objective experts) and although they may not say it publicly, they agree that there is ample evidence that there is something else that has yet to be revealed. It may not technically be part of the secret itself, but more likely Our Lady's explanation of the vision. Anyway, I'm rambling now. My point is basically this. Discernment is good, but don't assume that your discernment is the right, or even that a bishops discernment or even the Popes discernment (unless it is ex cathedra) is right.

This is most certainly not a hoax ... praised be God that in this moment in time, he has given us Papa Francis!

"For all the times this beat has seen truth being stranger than fiction, the story would be tough to top: a Pope who traditionalists love to hate succeeds in pulling off the very act his loudest critics have long desired most"

Don't thank me as I am too blind to see the good and merciful God at work through one of his humble and faithful of servants. It is by God's holy will (imo) that a little son of Mary should help by opening another door towards reconciliation. Will Papa or any of us live to see a full reconciliation?

Veritatis Splendor

About Me

... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton

Holy Face of Jesus

Show us your face and we shall be saved. "Each soul is the object of My special love. That is why I am so grateful to those who are resourceful and bringing back sinners to Me. Keep this in mind then. I gave My life for them in the most atrocious torture, for these poor beloved ones. A humble repentance, and they are already on My heart. So speak gently to them. Speak with tenderness. A brusque remark could drive them farther away." - He and I

Prayer to St. Michael

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.